un : deft hand of little deaths (voice)

[scrapgege]

There's something strange going on with the spirits in the Gut's Bind. I wonder, has anyone felt it too?

It's no like Serthica, there are ghosts and spirits here, and about in the kind of amount you'd expect in a war zone, but...

Not all the time.

Sometimes they're all over, and then at other times, the area feels extremely empty. And none of the ghosts I've spoken to seem to know what's going on.

... Well most of them don't really know what's going on or care, to be honest, but... Those are huge fluctuations? In a relatively small area, so that's not normal.

I know there are others who can feel spirits, so if you've felt this too, have you found anything that could cause it?

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voice; un: owllady

[traaaaaash]

Are part-time ghosts a thing?

[scrapgege]

... what does that mean?

[traaaaaash]

No idea, just throwing some options out there.

[scrapgege]

Well, I've never heard of that. Some ghosts can turn into other worst stuff, but that doesn't make them disappear, and you can't really go back and forth between being a ghost and ... not.

[traaaaaash]

Okay, so that throws that option out of the window.

Maybe there's a portal to a ghost world and they go back and forth?

[scrapgege]

I mean, there's supposedly a gate to hell under there and as far as I can tell from the energy, that's probably true. But even ghosts can't just go back and forth like that. If they are, something is making them.

un: white pawn; voice

[chosenbylight]

I have... Had a dream.

[Anduin hesitates.]

Well, not a dream necessarily, given that I was awake at the time. In the Wards. Between that, and the deaths that have been attributed to the so-called Reaper there.

I cannot help but wonder if it is all related.

[scrapgege]

What kind of dream? What did you see?

[chosenbylight]

I -- heard a song.

And dream is the wrong word to use, I suppose. I was awake. But -- compelled out of bed, and through the Wards in search of a. Staircase?

It was not unlike our previous encounters with the sirens, if I am being honest.

[scrapgege]

What song? What did it say?

Did you find the staircase? Did it tell you what it was leading to?

[chosenbylight]

[Anduin shakes his head.]

I -- can't say that there were words, exactly. Just... A feeling.

A. Sadness, if you would.

I have tried to find the staircase since, to no luck. But I know it did lead down.

[scrapgege]

Did it happen at a particular time where there were more spirits, or fewer? can you feel that?

[chosenbylight]

I do not know. To be honest, I was sleeping until the sound of her song woke me. I thought it all was a dream until someone stopped me, right there in the middle of the Wards.

I suppose the middle of the night is a more active time for such things?

un: absterge

[downswing]

Assumed the wards. On reinforcement, the spirits sublimate.

[scrapgege]

That could be... But a ward should not make spirits disappear that are already out and about, it should only prevent more from slipping out. So it would mean that whatever energy is being used, it's... consuming the ghosts, maybe?

[He's just trying to think on his feet here, and magic making use of ghost energy is absolutely a thing, it's just very dangerous and quite uncommon.]

Either that, or they're exorcising them at the same time.

[downswing]

Unnecessary to consume. Only to keep spirits beneath detection.

[scrapgege]

The amount of power it would take to hide a ghost from me is... phenomenal. Not something a human sorcerer would be capable of, no matter how powerful.

[downswing]

Perhaps you would serve us in the nethers.

[scrapgege]

I've avoided going near their hell gate so far, but maybe I should actually go and see...

[downswing]

You are certain?

[scrapgege]

Well, whatever is down there is unlikely to kill me anyway, so I might as well.